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BMC Meeting Announcement – Tuesday, June 4th – 7:30 PM
Speaker:Nicholas McDonald
Topic: Window into the Jurassic World - Fossils of the Connecticut Valley

Nicholas McDonald will be the speaker for the June meeting of the Boston Mineral Club. He is a geology, biology and chemistry instructor at Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut, and is emeritus Chairman of the Science Department. He holds two degrees in geology, including a Master's from Wesleyan University. In 40 years of fossil collecting, Nick has brought to light literally thousands of well-preserved specimens from the Jurassic rocks of central Connecticut and Massachusetts. He has published two books and authored numerous scientific papers on geology and paleontology. He is also an avid book collector, focusing on the history of geology, paleontology and mineralogy.

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I hope that you can attend. Also please remember that visitors are always welcome at our monthly meetings.

Nathan Martin

Field Trips:
The Boston Mineral Club is proud of its long tradition of conducting field trips to collecting localities throughout the New England area. Information about trips planned for the current year is published in our newsletters which can be found in the member's only area of the website: (insert link to the newsletter section). Information about previous year's trips can be found here.

The club also organizes occasional trips to localities outside of New England. Previous destinations have included Nova Scotia, Kentucky, Georgia and Arizona. You can view photos of our most recent trip to Nova Scotia.

Boston Mineral Club’s 75th Anniversary Celebration:
Was held on October 1st and 2nd, 2011 See the Details
                                     
WELCOME ALL NEW MEMBERS!

     Please join us at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA. (Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall). The Harvard Mineralogical Museum should be open starting at 7:00 p.m.  At 8:00 p.m., we will start the meeting. Parking is available for free in the underground garage at 52 Oxford Street, opposite Everett Street. As usual, there will be refreshments, a mineral raffle and access to the club library. Please invite a friend if you’d like — guests are always welcome to attend our meetings and it’s a great way to introduce them to the club.

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2010 Poland Mining Camp

September at the
Palermo #1 Mine

Penfield Quarry Fluorite

PLEASE NOTE: Please park in the underground parking garage at 52 Oxford Street. The entrance to this lot is just opposite Everett Street and is the same entrance that we formerly used to park in the old surface lot beside the museum. Please see the map at the bottom of the meetings page.